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Why not cloudflare?
Not sure if their system would know to remove your DNS, but that said, why take the chance, use Cloudflare as @netomx suggests.
Cloudflare doesn't work for some of my Chinese visitors thanks to the GFW. DO's working pretty well so far, but I guess to will move back to Namecheap's just in case. Thanks for the input guys.
Namecheap's is historically one of the better-performing free DNS services, it wouldn't hurt to look in HE's free DNS too, they are located on the West Coast as it is
I heard on IRC from someone official that using DO just for free DNS is not their intended scenario, and you really shouldn't do that. Will they really go and implement any restriction, is another question, probably not, or at least I'd espect it to be transparent and obvious when it's added (for example "your zones stop working 30 days after there has been any charge, e.g. from running droplets, on your account").
I think you'd get away with it, but would you risk it? You could get downtime if they shut you down later on without notice. Best to get something like ClouDNS.net
Good to know. I guess there's no free lunch/dns from DO.
Maybe use BuddyNS instead? Set up your VPS as a hidden master, and enable AFXR to their IP addresses. It supports notify, so changes are live on their servers within a minute or two.
I am using their free level (up to 10 domains, 300K lookups per month), and they have a cPanel Plugin which is the business. They have added a number of features to it in the last month, including a couple which I suggested.
If you pay $3/mo you can get a whole heap of extras - vanity nameservers, 3M lookups/mo.... but the free level is sufficient for my personal domain, plus a few lower traffic forums.
I use https://dns.he.net/, pretty solid.
Another excellent choice.
I use freedns.afraid.net for some 10 years or so, dynamic IPs work well too, they have some downtime now and then, but not hosting anything critical on free services (or which depend on free services somehow).
What is advantage over hosting your own DNS? Like do you think free services like it would have higher uptime or just not worth the trouble?
Its realistically only worth it if you intend to do huge bulk edits or want full control over your infrastructure.